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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. 11.1). SMITH. EDITOR. a e^x.....:r:v r cm ft IMrtrii City, o 0 % rrnxrrrrnyj-rtyrnrrr-i . thought to be a false report, but was found to be true. News broke out among the people of Worth county that McGirt & MePhaul Were selling Goods cheaper than any other merchants in the county , which was investigated and found correct. flow we ash the people of Worth and adjoining counties to come and examine our line ot IVc Carry a Side Line of Wash Pols, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture, Plows, V Plow Dear And All Farming: Utensils. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! FURNITURE! -AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot of Clothing selected for the Fall Trade , and we want to sell them rapidly. We have put them at very low prices. We can save you enough of money oti one suit of Clothes to pay you for coming to Poulan. When you want Hats, come to Bee us. When yon want Shoes, come to Bee ns. When you want Suits, come to see us. When you want Harness, come to Bee us. When you want Groceries, come to see us. When yon want Stoves, come to see us. When you want Furniture, come to see us. We have good an e salesmen, bo that when you come to see us, goods will he thrown down to you for your examination. AVe carry everything in the HARD¬ WARE LINE from a handsome File to a Grind Rock. o r ^ -‘A- c c o ■ Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc a box o'f Tobacco. Call and examine our Goods and get p r ; ce g. We will take pleasure in showing you. of the best RICE AVe have one MILLS in the country. Bring your rc)ll gh rice and let us hull it. Have your corn ground here. We will gin your cotton for you and then bny it or ship it from our ware¬ house free of drayage. Turn vonr face this way and make 0 v store headquarters for trade. McGirt «fc McPbanl. REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY DISCOURSE. Mi# ChrUtlnu lloine nml IVhnt It Should 15r«-A Powerful Test of ChtU'Seler— Various Mcnulnj?* of 11 (!ifl^«Can lie Made the •tvifeiitest Place on Kartli TtiXf: “Go homo to thy friends and tell thorn how great tilings the Lord hath done for tlioe,” Mark v., 19i There are rt ktd'eiil many people longing for swrtlft grand sphere in which to serve God. They admire Luther nt tho Diet of Worms, and only wish that winch they had some such their great Christian opportunity hi They to display prowess-. admire Paul making Veil* U'ihnble, and they only Wish thflt llttvy had some such grand oc¬ casion In which to preach righteousness, temperance and judgment opportunity to come: Id nil they want is only an exhibit their Christian hebMfnfl. Now tho evange¬ list come* t" \1S, and lie practically savs: "f will fchow you a place where beautiful, you can exhibit all that is grand, and and glorious, in Christian circle,” character! and that is the domestic falthiul If one is pot in an Insignificant sphere he will hot bo faithful in a resound¬ ing cripple sphere. If Peter will not help tho never lie at the able gate to ot preach tho temple, three thousand lie will souls into the hot kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will take pains to instruct in tho Way Ot salvation the jailer of the Phil¬ tremble. ippian dungeon, ho will rnver make Felix He who is not faithful in a skir¬ mish would not bo faithful In an Armaged¬ don. the position The fact in is, which we are nil placed grAndly in just we can ilirtst serve Ood: and we ought hot id be chiefly thoughtful About bomb Sphere of useful- lies Which We may niter a while gain, hut the all-absorbing question with .you and with t hou Vue ought to lie: “Lord, what wilt have roe now ana here to do?” There is ulib Word in ray text around Which the most of onr thoughts will this morning revolve. That word Vs “Home.” Ask ten different itien the meaning of that Word, and they Will give you ten different definition!!. To one it means love at the health, it means plenty at the table, in¬ dustry the books, nt the workstand, intelligence at devotion at the altar. To him it means a greeting at the door and It Smile at tlie chair. Peace hovering like wings. Joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed ou tlie ripples sleep the shadows. homo Ask another man What is, and he will tell yntt It is want, looking out of a empty uhowlwra fire-grate, The kneading hunger in an With bread tray. Bible damp air shivering curses. No on tho shelf. Chil¬ dren robbers and murderers in embryo. Every face a picture of ruin. Want in the background and sin staring from the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that door- sill. Vestibule of tho pit. Shadow Of in¬ fernal walls. Awful Furnace word! for It forging spelled everlast¬ ing chains. with is with eurses, it weeps ruin, it chokes With woe, It sweats with the death 'Agony of de¬ spair, Tho "ttbVne” word in the one case means Urn everything other bright. Tlie word “Home” 111 I shall case means everything terrific. speak to you this moruingof home as a test ot character, home as a refuge, homo as a political safeguard, home as a school, and home as place a type of heaven, And in tho first I remark, that homo is a powerful test of character. Tho disposition in public may be in gay cos¬ As tume, while in private it Is it! dishabille. the play actors may appear in Another blip Why on stage, and may appear fit way behind the scenes, sd pViVdle character may be very different from public character. Private Character is often public character turned Wrong side out. A man may re¬ ceive you into his parlor as though he were a distillation of smiles, and yet ids heart may be a swamp of nettles. There are business men who all day long are good-na! mild, and courteous, and genial, and lured tin commercial life, damming back their irritability, and their petulance, and breaks, their discontent; but at. night-fltil the dam nud scolding pours forth in floods and freshet*. The reason men do not display their had temper in public is because they do not Want to be knocked down. There are men who hide their petulance and their irrita¬ bility just for the same reason that they do not let their notes go to protest, It does not pay. Or for tile same reason that they do not want a man in their stock company to sell ids stock at less than the right price, test it depreciate the value, As at some- times the wind rises, so after a sunshiny There day there may be a tempestuous til night. are people who public act the philanthropist. to Who at home act tlie Nero with respect their slippers and tlicif gown, Nov?, hfi'able that man who 1*. in public Rnd who is irritable In private is making a fraudulent overissue of stock, and he is ns bad as a bank that might have four or five hundred thousand dollars of bills In circu¬ lation with no specie in tho vault. Let us learn to show piety at home. If wo have it not there, we have it not tn anywhere. If we have not genuine graeo the family circle, ail merely our .springs outward from and fear public of the plausibility world a or from fishness. the slimy, putrid pool o( our own sel¬ I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at heme you are everywhere, whether you demon¬ strate it or not. Again, I remark that home is a reiuge. Life is tile United Htates army on the na¬ tional road to Mexico, a long march with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At eventide we pitch our tent and stank the arms, bead we hang up the war cap and Jay our on tho knapsack, we sleep until the morning bugle calls u.s to inarching and action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the victories, and the surprises, and the at¬ tacks of the day, seated by the still camp- lire of the home circlel There is the place where we may talk of wliat we have done without being charged with self-adulation. There is the place where wo may lounge without being thought ungraceful. There is the place where we may express affection without being thought silly. There is tlie place where wo may forgetour annoyances, and exaspera¬ tions, and troubles. Forlorn earth pil¬ grim! no home? Then die. That is better. The grave is brighter, and grander, and more glorious than this world with no tent for marchings, with no harbor from the storm, with no place of rest from tills scene of greed, and gouge, and loss, and gain. God pity the man or the woman who has no home. i- urther, I remark, that home is a politi¬ cal safeguard. Tlie safety of ihe Htate must be built on the safety of the home. Mill’cannot France come to a placid re- puMic? Ever and anon there is a threat of National capsize. France as a nation has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is the only cor¬ ner-stone for a republic. The virtues cul¬ tured in the family circle are an absolute necessity for the .State, If there be not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will not he enough political principle to make the State adhere. "No home ’ means the Goths and Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia,; means the Numideans of Africa, changing from place to place, according as the pasture happens co '-hange. i unfounded be all those Babels ot iniquity which would overtower and de¬ stroy the home. The same storm that up¬ sink sets tlie the ship frigate in which the family sails will of the constitution. Jails and penitenliarie,.sand armies and naviesare not our best defense. The doorof the home is the best fortress. Further, f remars, that home is a school. Old ground must be turned up witli sub¬ soil plow, and it must be harrowed and re- barrowed, and then the crop will not be as large .-is that of the new ground with ler . cultur- Now, youth and childhood are new ground, and all the influences thrown over their heart and life will come up iu ASHBURN, r, vn X).. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1897. after life luxuriantly. Every time youliavo given a smile of Approbation, nil tho good cheer of your life will come up again In tho geniality of your. pHlIdreiii.. And every ebullition of angot Mud UltAdtltt'ola- ble display of indignation will Do fuel to their disposition twenty, or thirty, or forty years from now fuel for a bad lire a quar¬ ter of a contjlry Ronl Ull j : . . 011; mitt * yoiii Lome the brightest piaeo on earth, if you would charm your chil¬ dren to the high path of virtue, and reeti- tude, blind? and religion. Do not lijwrtyfi ilfliit turn tho the wrong Way’ bd M*d tho which pins gold oil the gentian dwellings. and spots Do pansy pour Into your not dead expect tho little feet to keep step walls to a ranroh. Do not cover up your with sueh pictures bf Tint<lreft^’s ns West’s ."Death op a Pale Ilihbeents.’ Horse," “MiAMseiird of thd llather cover thorn, if you have pictures, with “The Hawking Party,” and “Tho Mill by the Mountain.Stream,” and “The Fox Hunt," am} "The, Chil¬ dren Amid, FloWers," end "Tlul Harvest Scone, and "The Saturday Night Market¬ ing.” Above all, my friends, take, into your homes Christian principle, Can 11 bo that in any of tjin ontnfoHiUno hdnies fit riiy con¬ gregation the voice of prayer is never lifted? What! No application at night for protec¬ tion? What! No thanksgiving In the morn¬ ing for care? How, my Li brother, njv Uf Sister, Judg¬ will you ansWer God the Daj? ment, Witli reference to your children? ft is a plain question, and therefore [ ask it. Tn the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says ito will pour out His fury upon the families that cull not upon Iils name. 0 parents, when you are dead and gone, aud the moss is covering (he Inscription of the lombstoiie, will your children look hack and tlfiiik t>f father amt itldtlH-l’lit family pfayer? Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of promise tears of cprit.ritiqii Wct*T and tears of consoling Into darkness? long before gone out Oh, if you do not Inculcate Christian prin¬ ciple iu the hearts of your children, liifd and you do not warn them holiness against oVil,, and to God, yoii. do not Invito them to and they Wander off into dissipation and into infidelity, and at last make their shipwreck death-bed of their immortal soul, on and in their Day of Judgment they will curse you. Seated by the register or the stove, what if on the wall should oome out tho history of your children? What life a his- tory—the mortal and !malarial of your loved OiiCs. Every parent is writing tlid history of ills child; llo is writing it; com¬ posing if into d song HF Idiming it Into a groan: My mind runs back to one ot the best of early homes. Prayer, like a roof, over it. Peace, like an atmosphere, in trial it. Parents, personifications of faith in and com- fort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly homo long ago orumlded to dust. But shall I ever forget that early home? Yes, when the flower forgets lflilfltter the suu that warms It; Yes, guided Wilde t.hd for¬ gets theetaf hits that him. Yes, when love gone eiflpiled out df the heart’s altar and memory lias Hvi ills urii into fdrget- fulnpss: Then'. hdinh oi my childhood, I w!H fUbget thee! the family altar of a father’s importunity aud a mother’s tender¬ ness, the voices of affection, tho funerals of our dead father and mother, with inter¬ locked arms like intertwining branches of trees making a kindness-then perpetual arbor 1 of love, and peace, and Will for¬ get them then and only them You know, my brother, that a hundred times you have been kept out of sin b,v the memory of such a scone ftfton as had.raging? l hdve been, temptations, describing. You have but you Ijii.dw whit! lids hold you with su- pernUHHa. „. 0 -p. i tell you, a man who has had such a good home ns that never gets over it, and a man who lias had a bad early home never gets over It, heaven. Again, I remark, that home home is a typo of To bring us to that Christ left His home. Far up and far back In the history Its of heaven lllilstl'idUs there citizen came a period when most was about to abSOilt liimseif; lie Was not going to sail front beach to beach; wc havrt often done that; liemlajih-rh lie.was lidt to ftolnjjf td put out from bile another hemis¬ phere 1 many of us have done that. But , He was to sail from world to world, the spaces unexplored and the immensities un- traveled. No world had ever hailed heaven, and so far as wo know heaven had never hailed any other world. I think that tlie windows and the balconies were thronged, and that the pearly beaoh was erowde 1 with those who lisnl come to see Him sail out the harbor of light Into the ocean be¬ yond, and and out, and Out, and down, out, down, on, And and down on, and on, and lie sped, Until one night, with only one to greet Him, he arrived. quiet, His disembarka¬ tion, so unpretending, so that It was not known on earth Until the excitement in the ciemd gilve intimation that something gland and glorious hud happened! Who comes there? From what port did He sail? Why was this tho place of his destination? I question the shepherds, I question the camel drivers, I question the exile, angels. I have found out! lie was an But the world has had plenty of exiles—Abraham anexilo from Ur of the.Chaldees) John an exile I’olands from Ephestlsj Mazzinl KosCiiiskO exile from itn Rome; exile from au Emmett aa exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo an exile from France; Kossuth an exile from Hungary. But this one of whom I speak to-day had such resounding fare¬ well and same Into such chilling reception for not even n hostler went out with his lantern to help Him in that He is more to bo celebrated than any other expatriated one of earth or heaven. It is ninety-five million miles from here to the sun, and all astronomers agree in saying that our solar system is only one of the small wheels turning of the round great machinery of the universe, distant some onegreat it Is be¬ center, tho center so far yond all imagination and calculation, and If, as some think, that great center iu tho distance is heaven, Christ came far from home when He ca ne here. Have you ever thought of tho homesickness of Christ? Some of you know what homesickness is, when you have domestic been only a few Christ weeks ab- sent from the circle. was thirty-three years away from home. Homo of you feel homesickness whon you are a hundred or a thousand miles away from tho domestic circle. Christ was more mil¬ lions of miles away from home than you could calculate If all your life you did noth¬ ing but calculate. You know what It is to be homesick even amid pleasurable surroundings; but Christ slept in huts, and He was athirst, and He was u-iiungered, and He was on the way from being born in another man’s barn to being burled in an¬ other man’s grave. I have read how the Swiss, when they are far away from their native country, at the sound of their na¬ tional air get so homesick that they fall in¬ to melancholy, and sometimes they oh, die under the homesickness. But, tho homesickness of Christ! Poverty homesick homesick for celestial riches. Persecution for hosanna. Weariness homesick for rest. Homesick for angelic and archangelic com¬ panionship. Homesick to go out of the night and the storm and the world’s exe¬ cration, and all that homesickness suffered to get us horn". At our best estate we are only pilgrims home.” and strangers here. "Heaven is our Death will never knock at the door of that mansion, and in ail that country there ts not a single grave. How glad parents are in holiday times to gather their children home again. But I have noticed that there is almost always a son or a daughter ab¬ sent-absent from home, perhaps absent from the country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father will be when He gets all His children home with Him in heaven! And how delightful it will be for brothers and sisters to meet alter long separation! Once they parted at the door of the tomb; now they meet at the door of immortality. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, thrones of dominion, do not stir my soul so much as the thought of home. Once there let earthly sorrows bowl like storms and roll like seas. Home. Let thrones rot and empires wither. Home. Let and the world die tn earthquake struggle, be buried amid procession of planets and dirge ot spheres. Home, Let everlasting ages roll Irresistible swoop. Home. dentil. No But sorrow, home, no crying, no tears, no borne, Sweet heme, homo, beautiful over- lasting itomr!, lWnib with e;ioh other, homo with God. when very , One night lying on my lounge, in tired; [illl Idnip, my children flllarlU; all ground imtgliter about me oil dad and liitlt rielcop. r the lounge, half awake and dreamed this dream: I was in a fur coun¬ try; ft was hot Persia, although more than fiel.oiibll UtyurldOtfO.i’Ivvfuml the pities. thail It was not 1 11 o tropics, ntoro tropical fruitfulness tilled the gardens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softuoss tilled tho air. And I wandered around looking for thorns and nettles. b'U t feibni Chit node of .then) grew there, and isawtiiositn it vise, and t hatched to set* jt set, but sank not. Au d 1 saw the people will in holiday attire, ami 1 said: "When they put .off this and put on workmen’s Slid rtgrtlti delve hi the mine orswel- ter tit tho forge?” But they never put Off the holiday attire. And I wiMxde.ted in tho suburbs of tho fa ttWlfte IhWaf The tiful hills, the place where the dea l might ztixiWfi&its sbib svssi nieut or ii \yiilte hhitpui uqnlij Hie f sea. And I went tc Hie t‘f profit town, limt I said: "Where do the poor worship am. where are the hind honchos on which they sit?” And the answer was made mo: “Wo have no poor In this country.'' And then I wandered out to hint the hovels of the destitute, and 1 found mansions of amlmr and ivory slghfidijid and gold; but not itnd a tear could J. add, wildereo; ilrit .it I heat, I was be- and 1 sat dowa Under t lie branyhes of a great tree itml said: "Wnort rim And I?, Aiul whence «omoa all this poone? . then out Horn fiirioug* liieleaves, itnd Up tho flowery paths, and across the bright streams there eatno a beautiful group they shout otl 1 thought I knew their arrayed voices; bat then they were so gloriously wit- in apparel suoh as I had never before nessod that l bowed asslrangnrto stranger, But when again they clapped their hands and shouted: “Welcome, welcome,” tho mystery all vanished, and I found that time heaveii; Ami 1 looked and around, and said: teSlSfJsJSfjrdiK “Ard we all beret'* tho voices of many j’:;I our cheeks, ami the branches of the Lebanon, cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, wo all together began to leap and shout and sing “Homo, homo, home, homo!” A FEATHERED FIGHTER. Hunter* Tnke Advantage of the Red Bird’s Ptignacitjp The redbird, when it lias gotten down hard to home-making, develops a remarkable tendency to light. At all other times of tho year he is as docile and gentle as any in the woods ■—indeed, rather inclned to take a deal from other birds—but ns soon as the nest is completed and Mrs. Redbird is Installed queen thereof lie gels on his tvsr paint end will light, anything that comes along, it is by taking advan¬ tage of the bravery of the redbird in defending the home that the hunter is enabled to snare it. The trap used is a wire cage. Within this cage is a tame bird, one which has been in cap¬ tivity a year nr two and sings freely. F j’h6 liiintdr tvafiders intfi the Woods and slowly makes his way through the swamps until he reaches a dense por¬ tion, Wilcii lib iirtltsj says a writer in the Philadelphia Telegraph. Pretty soon the bird in the cage— 1 delighted, doubtless, at being again in its native woods, even if bars stand between it and liberty—begins singing With ail its might. If there is a red¬ bird within sound of the caller’s voice It hastens to investigate. One of the peculiar habitB of the redbird, hunters Nay, in that there seems by common consent to lie a division of the woods among them—each bird having ap¬ propriated to his especial jurisdiction a certain allotment of woods. Some¬ times other birds, either by mistake or for the purpose of acquiring more ter¬ ritory, invade the domain of another, whereupon there is a fierce fight, which Is called off only when one or the other of the birds conquers, in which case the victor becomes the possessor of tho tPrritoi-y of the two, together with the defeated bird’s mate, who, it seems, is no longer willing to share fortunes with her former lord after he has proved himself a poor fighter. The hunter has on one side of his cage a light net, bound about by a light frame, and to tho center of a light iron rod stretched perpendicu¬ larly across this frame is attached, in swinging position, a short, rounded stick about six inches In length. This gate of netting is opened and kept in that position by tho wooden trigger attached to the sides of the cage where¬ in Is the call bird. This connection Of the two triggers Is very delicate, and the slightest touch will suffice lo throw it, whereupon the netting-frame door is quickly closed by a spring against the. sides of the cage. This la what holds the redbird captive. As soon as the hunter has set the trigger of the cage he hangs It to a limb somewhere or places It. on the ground anil go“s away some distance to await results. 'I he Imprisoned red- bird soon begins to sing, and presently, if there is a redbird anywhere within hearing distance, there Is a flutter of wings, a series of shaip cries, and lie- fore the hunter can say “scat” the wild redbird flies headlong at. his supposed enemy in the cage, throws the trigger and is captured. It. takes very little longer to capture a redbird than it does to catch a fish. Tf once the caged bird is placed in the right, spot, within the territory of the other redbird, and he hears it singing, the rest, is very easy, for, regardless of all personal safety and everything else, he rushes madly to the fight. ringing the changes. “I tell you, the man I respect is the man who can change his opinion.” “And the man I respect is the man who can change a thousand dollar bill.” THE COUNTRY’S NEEDS. “What this country needs,” said the earnest citizen, “is more war¬ ships. ” Sorghum, “Yes,” replied Senator reflectively, “and more Consulships.” CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL MEET IN ATLANTA NEXT JULY. ANNIVERSARY OF THREE BUTTLES. C.imnmdem of Georgia Camps Hold Meet¬ ing In Atlanta nml Make Arrange- meats for the Oecaslon. rpi _ cnnfoilei'AU/ Veterans have ilo- tinl great . . citled on the date for reunion to be held In Atlanta next year. \ meeting of Inti ^owmandors ana representatives of all the Georgia camps * veterflnS hold in Atlanta Friday •. «*. n.« «-.* » T < <« «<«•«•»« <« the great event. It V as tilt raeoia* rnendation of the meeting that the re- .***,. ; til'bl at some time between the 20th of July , , s ,, <be . ,,, onu " gust. The two battles of Atliintll tvKrH f j . j u ] T 20 and 22. Tho first * ' July r„i„ ■>< Tlie battle . of , Manassas ,, on rn- union will continue during three days Hlu ( jj, pail thus be made to celebrate u U1, Important 1 anniversaries. Thd .„ fliifil j deoisiotl , . . 111 tho ,* matter „««** *•. ;« h-ft with the committee appointed is at tho Nashville teunion, but it custom- tiiins ilK Is iiibfti to nclib people AV bere tlio reunion is to be ,,,, * tj , p T waR CA ]]e<l several weeks , by ueneral lenient 4 /\. * ago t Evans, ’ for tho purpose of inaugurating i f or ontertaininont of tho »«i «»«>« «< a. «««• City in IHOo. Mufo than 100 lepio- sentativea of tho Georgia camps were .........., opened tlie wvib n> hrnn o«;l gtirviuR address. A roso l u tion was passed 1 calling upoil the , representatives . of , l ,, iie various camps to exert every effort to bring every Confederate veteran in Georgia to tlic Atlanta reunion. Another resolution thanked tho city council for its cordial invitation in be¬ half of the people of Atlanta, and pledged the hearty eo-aperfttiml of nil the state camps ill making the rettulotl a grand success. in anticipation of Thus the first gun the reunion lias been fired. It is pro¬ posed to have a great crowd in Atlanta in ’l)S>, and a resolution was passed calling upon the camps in all t he coun¬ ties of tho state to appoint u commit¬ tee for I.lid purpose of collecting suV>- sistence stores and money to assist Atlanta in taking care of the v tore ns. There are at present ill) camps of Confederate veterans in Georgia and others will be formed before the re¬ union occurs. General Evans is highly pleased and at the success of the first step taken, looks forward to all unparalleled cele¬ bration. TRAIN MAKES FATAL RUN. Carried Deatli All Aleng tiic "Cotton Belt” ltouto. The passenger train on the Ht.Louis and Southwestern road, known as tho “Cotton Belt” route, was ill-fated and death marked its run Friday. Near Mount Pleasant, Texas, tho train rail over J. C. Beasley, an ex-section fore- man, who had fallen asleep on the truck. He was killed.instantly. About thirty miles further west, near Greenville, three negro children were playing down among the timbers of a trestle bridge. They scampered up had to the track trying to escape. They not been seen by the engineer and were so close to the engine that they w ere run over before being discovered. Two were killed between the rails. The other died un hour later. A few miles further west, near Wy¬ lie, a passenger named J. C. Davis, entered a toilet room and committed suicide by shooting himself through tho head. 11 is home was at Cedar Hill, near Dallas. His friends cannot account for his killing himself. TRIAL OF ( HEW. Competitor’* PrlHonern Will Ito Arraigned lie fore Naval Court. A special of Friday from Havana says: the of tho schooner The trial of crew Competitor before tho naval courtmnr- tial, whoso decision must he confirmed by the Madrid government, will begin Monday morning, Henor Masa Domingez will conduct tho defense. THE SOUTHERN WINS In tlie lilntlienthal & HP ki rt "Original I’aukutf**,” Wliiftkay C.-t nr,. Judge Pardee made a decision at Atlanta Friday morning in tho United Htates circuit court in the case of Blu- thenthal A Bickert against the (South¬ ern Railway company. de¬ 'The judge refused to sustain the murer of the railway company, hut did not issue the mandatory order compelling it to haul the goods of Blutlienthal k Bickert into the state of South Carolina. The defendant was allowed five days j n which to file an additional answer to tho allegations in the petition for injunction, __ INDIAN FIGHTER DEAD. Col. “Kip” Ford I’aMM Away at th« Ag« of KI|fI»ty-Tvro# Colonel John H. Ford, known throughout Texas at Colonel “Rip” Ford, the Indian fighter, died at his home at Ban Antonio, Texas, Thurs¬ day, after a month’s illness. Colonel Ford was stricken witli paralysis on October 1, since which time he gradually sank. The deceased was 82 years of age, a native of South Carolina. Dr. J. F. Gardner, riiysician and Surgeon. Calls Answered Promptly DAY AND NIGHT. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Residence at the Ilicks place. ahhuukn, GF.OHOIA. DR. .T. F. GREGORY & CO., SPECIALISTS. Rupture, Catarrh, Roctal Disoasoa, (L’iles), Fistulas Cured. NO KNIFE, NO TAIN. Room No. 1, Heard Building, Cordole, Ga. 1(17 Cotton Avo., Macon, On. WARREN L. STORY, Physician and Surgeon, SYCAMORE, OA. Diseases of Noso and Throat. DR. W. ,T. TURNER, Physician and Hurgoon, ASHBURN, OA. Special Attention Given to Diseases of Women and Children. Office in Room No. 2, Betts Build- ing. Residence: W. A. Shinglcr’s. Calls Answered Day or Night. Telephone No. 18. DR. T. H. THRASHER, Physician and Surgeon, A sn bit un , ' G no no i a . General Practice Solicited. Office in tho Christian Building. C. E. WALKER, Physician and Surgeon, Sycamore, Georgia. GEO. W. COOPER, DENTIST, Ashburn, Georgia. Office, Room No. 4, Betts Building. AV. B. CONE, 1). D. S. 7 Make a Specialty of Grown, Bridgos and Replantations, Teeth Extracted Without Pain. Ashburn, Georgia. W. T. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law. Land and Collections. Sycamore, Georgia. A. J. DAVIS, Attorney at Law, Ashburn, Georgia. Real Estate and Collections. Prompt attention to all business placed in our bands. iF f{. WHITE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Ashburn, Georgia. Will practico in all the Courts, State and Federal. ,T. G. POLHILL, Attorney at Law, Sylvester, - - Georgia. Practice in all the Courts. Patronage Solicited. AV A . HAWKINS, Attorney at Law, e Building, Rooms 4 and 5. Cordele, Georgia. Prompt attention given to all business intrusted to my care. Jons V. Tovt.lv, J. AV. Fowki.i,, Vienna, Ga. Ashburn, Ga. JNO. F. POWELL A SON, Attorneys at Law. AVe practice in all the courts. Im¬ mediate and careful attention given to business placed in our hands. Em¬ ploying one secures services of both. Business solicited and inquiries answered. PRANK PARK, Attorney - at - Law, Poulan, Georgia. B. W. ADKINS, Attorney at Law, Collections a Specialty, Poulan, Georgia. Lanier & Dekle DEALERS IN Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Saddles, Baby Carriages, Express Wagons and Collins and Caskets, COBDELE, OA. VOL. VI. NO. I t. 1 i i • • • DEALERS IN • • • Yellow Pine Liber, Ashburn, Ga. V ^s. '■sJP.v-.vxxtAXiiU.UJUjUAX’uUj^. .VTmTfYrnrYYxvorrrn,j^»w Ml Criers lor Laths, Shingles, Staves , Car Sills, Bridge Stuff, Flooring , Moulding, Brack• ets , Ceiling, Etc., Will Receive Praipi Attention. i)i: Wo oarry a well selected and assorted stock of Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Etc. If in neod of anything in CLOTHING, Such as MEN’S AND BOYS SUFfS, We Can Fit You. AVE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF LADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS would be pleased to show tho ladies of Ashburn and sur¬ rounding country. Tmks. YalisB uiSatelds. OUR CAN IR ES • It Arc Fresh and Fine, Flour, Meat >9 Grits, Rice, Sugar, Coffee, Meal, And in fad any and everything that, is kept in a lirst-class Grocery House can be had at our Large Brick Btufo as cheap as tho cheapest. We Carry a Full Line of fuhniture. UP STAIRS Our Stork of SHOES is Complete, w ith a Specialty of Ladles’ and Chil¬ dren’s Fine Sunday Wear. We also handle the best brands of Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, Etc. Full line of the best makes of STOVES NOW ON HAND. All kinds of STOCK FEED at REASONABLE PRICES. The citizens of Ashburn and sur¬ rounding country are cordially invited to call and inspect our stook. We have a Wagon Yard and Stall*. Feed Troughs, eta., for the oonrefiu- ence of our customer* eapaoially. Respectfully, .J. S. BETTS & CO.